267 Pa. Super. 370 - Commonwealth v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently August 2010
16 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Demmitt · Commonwealth v. Brown · Commonwealth v. Alexander · Commonwealth v. Bruno · Commonwealth v. Segers
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]ppellant has failed to show that the panel from which his jury was selected did not represent a cross section of the community ... [T]he defendant has the initial burden of demonstrating a prima facie case of discrimination, then the burden shifts to the Commonwealth to rebut the evidence .... Appellant has made no attempt to show racial prejudice in the composition of the jury panel or any systematic exclusion of blacks from this panel.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“(b) Unless opportunity did not exist prior thereto, a challenge to the array shall be made not later than five days before the first day of the week the case is listed for trial of criminal cases for which the jurors have been summoned and not thereafter, and shall be in writing, specifying the facts constituting the ground for the challenge.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“in one motion, appellant swiveled and punched Mrs. Amos in the face causing her to black out.... Mrs. Amos suffered multiple fractures to her lower jaw which forced her to spend four days in the hospital and six weeks with her jaw wired shut.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.